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Hexagon

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A polygon with six sides and six angles.

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On the floor of each room is an icon a circle, a hexagon, a flower and, prior to the game starting, the players have a short time to explore their surroundings.

Its high-speed rail network has been spinning a web from Paris to the corners of the French hexagon since the mid-1970s.

It is made of wood in an angular barrel shape, having an outline like an elongated hexagon.

Following his lead, Pascal made his surprising discovery that the intersections of the three pairs of opposite sides of a hexagon inscribed in a conic lie on a straight line.

Bees, then, know just this fact which is useful to them, that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material in constructing each.

A distinctive set of physical and chemical properties is imparted to molecules that contain a functional group composed of three pairs of doubly bonded atoms (usually all carbon atoms) bonded together in the shape of a regular planar (flat) hexagon.

Stemming from Gupta art is the practice adopted at Bamiyan between the 5th and 6th centuries of painting in the dome of a sanctuary a Buddha within a circle or hexagon.

A structural feature especially common among isoprenoid compounds is a ring of six carbon atoms; the simplest compound possessing this structure is cyclohexane (not an isoprenoid), represented by structural formula 1, by a condensed version 2, or simply by the hexagon 3.

The solution, but not a proof, was known by Pappus of Alexandria c. 340 ce: Bees, then, know just this fact which is useful to them, that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material in constructing each.

2000 bce) used 3.125 to approximate pi, a value they obtained by calculating the perimeter of a hexagon inscribed within a circle and assuming that the ratio of the hexagon's perimeter to the circle's circumference was 24/25.

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IN A clean room at the Airbus Defence & Space (ADS) factory north of London, scientists are working on LISA Pathfinder (pictured), a hexagon-shaped satellite due to be launched next year.

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